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Tea market sells 8.4 million kgs in the weekly auction

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One of the tea farms in Mathioya, Murang'a. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]

Mombasa tea auction opened the year trading with 8,416,373kgs (127,938 packages) of tea offered by four African countries that attracted 48 buyers.

In the market,  Kenya presented the largest consignment of  5,756,180kgs drawn from the KTDA-managed factories and the independent tea producers. 

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